I am a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering Department at UC San Diego. My advisor is Professor Sicun Gao.
Publication
Sample-and-Bound for Non-convex Optimization [arXiv]
Yaoguang Zhai*, Zhizhen Qin*, Sicun Gao. AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) 2024
Policy Optimization with Advantage Regularization for Long-Term Fairness in Decision Systems
Eric Yang Yu, Zhizhen Qin, Min Kyung Lee, and Sicun Gao. NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) 2022
Quantifying Safety of Learning-based Self-Driving Control Using Almost-Barrier Functions [arXiv]
Zhizhen Qin, Tsui-Wei Weng, Sicun Gao. IROS (International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems) 2022
Participatory Algorithmic Management: Elicitation Methods for Worker Well-Being Models [pdf]
Min Kyung Lee, Ishan Nigam, Angie Zhang, Joel Afriyie, Zhizhen Qin, Sicun Gao. AIES (AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society) 2021
Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant
UCSD CSE 257: Search and Optimization (Spring 2021, Fall 2021)
UCSD CSE 150B: Introduction to AI: Search and Reasoning (Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Fall 2020)
UCSD CSE 150A: Introduction to AI: Probabilistic Reasoning and Decision-Making (Summer Session 1 2020)
